Basketball

From the Lamar sports information office: Baseball player Blake Ford was named the Male Senior Athlete of the Year, while tennis player Mariaryeni Gutierrez and basketball player Jenna Plumley shared Female Senior Athlete of the Year honors Wednesday night at Lamar University’s annual All-Sports Banquet from the Montagne Center. Additionally, women’s basketball player Monique Whittaker […]
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Pat Knight’s Lamar University basketball team will play Dec. 20 at Ohio State. The Enterprise originally reported the game will be Dec. 22. Lamar assistant coach Clif Carroll said Wednesday the university originally discussed playing the game Dec. 22. The game will presumably provide a chance for Ohio State to honor Knight’s legendary coaching father […]
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Shauna Long, the leading scorer in North Dakota high school girls basketball last season, committed to Lamar on Monday night, according to KFYR in Bismarck, N.D. Long averaged 29 points, eight assists and six steals per game for Standing Rock High School in Fort Yates, N.D. She was a three-time All-State selection and finished her […]
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Joseph Price, 47, will soon round out Pat Knight’s coaching staff at Lamar University. Price, who played at Notre Dame for Digger Phelps in the 1980s, attended a meet-and-greet for Knight and his coaching staff Thursday night at The Grill, on Calder Ave. Knight declined to comment on Price because he has not officially been […]
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Pat Knight will hire Morehead State assistant coach Joseph Price to work as an assistant coach for the Lamar University men’s basketball team, a source close to the job search said Tuesday. Price helped coach Morehead State to the second round of the NCAA tournament in his only season at the school. Price also coached […]
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